3D, movies, games, players
Archive for February, 2006
HD-DVD won’t output full quality to current HDTV devices
Feb 25th
“The movie industry and others will go to great lengths to combat piracy, even if that means hurting early adopters of HDTV technology by crippling functionality. AACS, the DRM-esque technology for HD-DVD players, will not produce a full quality signal from component video connectors, as analog is “unsafe”. The resulting resolution is 960×540 – more than a standard TV, but vastly inferior to the actual 1920×1080 resolution that HD will support natively. That’s not the end of it either.” source: ‘DittoIt’ 2006-02-25
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What You Must Know About Holographic Storage
Feb 25th
“The so-called fourth generation of optical storage format has been highly promoted lately, and considering that neither the Blu-Ray nor the HD DVD has become a de facto standard for HD content, Optware and Inphase Technologies offer prospects for terrabytes of storage.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2006-02-24
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NEC Leaning Towards Blu-Ray
Feb 25th
“With Sony and Nec’s merge of optical disc business into a new company, industry analysts are now predicting that NEC is looking towards the Blu-Ray camp.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2006-02-22
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Blue Laser Format Testing
Feb 25th
“HD DVD and Blu-ray drives, like their predecessors the CD and DVD formats will be tested in order to provide information on the quality of the media. In order, to design a Blu-ray or HD DVD test system, the manufacturer needs to understand the main differences between the new and old formats.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2006-02-20
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AACS Interim Licensing Begins
Feb 25th
“The Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator (AACS LA) Group released on Saturday the v0.91 AACS specifications and made the interim licensing agreement for available HD DVD and Blu-Ray products.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2006-02-20
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Toshiba, LG to share CD, DVD, HD DVD toys
Feb 16th
“Toshiba and LG have agreed to share their respective optical disc patent portfolios the better to make each company’s product development budget go further.
” source: ‘reghardware.co.uk’ 2006-02-16
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DVD Pioneer Hansen to Open First Indie HD Blu-ray Disc Facilities
Feb 16th
“DVD pioneer Erick Hansen, founder and Chairman of Blue Ray Technology, will open the perhaps the first independent Blu-Ray factories to make high definition discs for the next generation of the super quality format.
”source:’avinfo.co.uk’ 2006-02-16
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Nero and Samsung Demo First Functional Blu-ray Devices
Feb 16th
“Nero, leaders in digital media technologies, announced today that Samsung is sending out test samples in Europe of its Samsung Blu-ray disc devices together with a special test version of Nero 7 supporting the Blu-ray disc format.
”source:’creativemac.com/articles’ 2006-02-16
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HD DVD and Blu-ray delayed again, as AACS is pushed back
Feb 16th
“According to a report at Heise online, the members of the AACS licensing authority could not agree on a final specification last week. The hold up must infuriate HD DVD backers, because the last sticking point apparently only applies to the Blu-ray specific BD+ anti-piracy measure.
” source:’arstechnica.com/news.ars’ 2006-02-16
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Burn-and-print device announced for Blu-ray
Feb 16th
“Primera Technology has announced an automated burn-and-print device for Blu-ray media. Known as the Bravo XR-Blu Disc Publisher, the device is a Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray Disc/DVD recorder with full-colour direct-to-disc inkjet printing.” source: ‘techspot.com/news’ 2006-02-16
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